List of Mandrake episodes
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This is a list of episodes for the Brazilian HBO original series Mandrake.
As of December 16, 2007, 13 episodes have aired over 2 seasons.
[edit] Season 1 (2005)
Title | Nº | Director | Writer | Synopsis | Airdate(s) |
A Cidade Não É Aquilo Que Se Vê Do Pão De Açúcar (The City is Not What is Seen from the Sugarloaf) |
#1 | José Henrique Fonseca | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | A Playboy falls for a prostitute and hires Mandrake to negotiate her "release" from the brothel where she works. | October 30, 2005 (HBO) |
Dia dos Namorados (Valentine's Day) |
#2 | Toni Vanzolini | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | Mandrake works to resolve the troubles of a love triangle gone wrong. | November 6, 2005 (HBO) |
Eva | #3 | Arthur Fontes | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | Mandrake is hired by a senator who is blackmailed when his mistress turns up dead. | November 13, 2005 (HBO) |
Yag | #4 | José Henrique Fonseca | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | A famous stylist is blackmailed by an anonymous who threatens to expose his eccentric sex life | November 20, 2005 (HBO) |
Detetive (Detective) |
#5 | Carolina Jabor | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | N/A | November 27, 2005 (HBO) |
Atum Vizcaya (Vizcaya Canned Tuna) |
#6 | Lula Buarque de Hollanda | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | Mandrake intermediates when a rich kid turned drug dealer gets kidnapped for ransom by dirty cops. | December 4, 2005 (HBO) |
Kolkata | #7 | Cláudio Torres | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | A colleague calls Mandrake to handle an emergency in an orgy at a millionaire's mansion involving prominent people. | December 11, 2005 (HBO) |
Amparo | #8 | Arthur Fontes | José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Braga and Tony Bellotto | When the ninfomaniac girlfriend of an Argentine pop star vanishes in the city, Mandrake is hired to find the girl. | December 18, 2005 (HBO) |
[edit] Season 2 (2007)
Title | Nº | Director | Writer | Synopsis | Airdate(s) |
Brasília | #9 (2-01) |
José Henrique Fonseca | Tony Bellotto | In search of a friend's niece turned call girl that went missing, Mandrake goes to Brasília and investigates a bizarre sect headed by an influential politician. | November 18, 2007 (HBO) |
João Santos | #10 (2-02) |
José Henrique Fonseca | Claudio Torres | When an old friend of Wexler's gets blackmailed and indicted for corrupting minors, Mandrake investigates and uncovers unsuspected secrets. | November 25, 2007 (HBO) |
Rosas Negras (Black Roses) |
#11 (2-03) |
José Henrique Fonseca | Felipe Braga | Mandrake intervenes when the daughter of an old lover tries to fake a kidnapping but ends up as a real hostage. | December 3, 2007 (HBO) |
Lígia | #12 (2-04) |
José Henrique Fonseca | Cláudia Tajes | Mandrake stumbles upon an illegal operation when an old lover turned environmentalist asks him to be the legal counsel for a NGO intermediating an "environment-friendly" deal in Brazil. | December 9, 2007 (HBO) |
Alma | #13 (2-05) |
José Henrique Fonseca | José Henrique Fonseca | Mandrake gets entangled in a dangerous love triangle when the trophy wife of a tycoon asks for help with an affair apparently gone wrong. | December 16, 2007 (HBO) |